option to list video URLs in playlist; want to parallelize

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Can youtube-dl provide simply a list of video URLs given a playlist? I want to be able to do something like

youtube-dl --dump-playlist <playlist-URL>|parallel -j3 youtube-dl

[Hrxn]

Info should be included with --dump-json <playlist URL>..
You can then process with something like jq.

But I'm not sure if that approach is really practical, because ultimately download rates are limited by the server side, and if they detect any usual spikes in traffic this might end up in a temporary IP ban. You know, due to automated DDoS mitigation techniques etc.

I'm not saying that it can't work, just that it might not.

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In my case, I'm adding subtitles and doing other processing to downloaded videos, so it would be much faster in parallel because right now network sits idle quite a bit of the time.

This does indeed dump JSON, but fairly slowly- looks like maybe youtube-dl is doing deep introspection, which isn't required for my use case. I only need the youtube ID for this application.

Filtering through jq '.webpage_url_basename' gives me what I need to know- just wondered if there's a lighter-weight, faster version of this.

[dstftw]

--flat-playlist.

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Thanks. Can confirm that

youtube-dl $PLAYLIST --dump-json --flat-playlist|jq -r ".id"|parallel -j2 --retry-failed youtube-dl -- :::

works very well.